Youth and Policy

Howard Williamson

1. Making Sense … a Failure to Understand and a Duty to Explain: Youth, Youth Policy and Youth Research 1975-1995. Part 1. Just Wicked: Rational Delinquents. 2. Golden Years. 3. Choosing to be a Delinquent. 4. Why Kids Plead Guilty. 5. Trapped as Teenagers. Part 2. Exploitation or Opportunity? Youth Training Programmes. 6. Chance Would be a Fine Thing. 7. Client Responses to the Youth Opportunities Programme. 8. Status Zer0 Youth: Politics, Predicaments and Policies. 9. Policy Responses to Youth Unemployment: Cultures, Careers and Consequences. Part 3. Person-Centred or Politically-Determined: the Youth Service. 10. The Changing Context of Youth Work in the 1990s. 11. At the Crossroads: Youth Work in Wales. 12. The Needs of Young People Aged 15-19 and the Youth Service Response. Part 4. On the Edge: Diminished Prospects and Growing Marginalisation. 13. Struggling Beyond Youth. 14. Youth Policy in the United Kingdom and the Marginalisation of Young People. 15. Culture, Politics and Social Exclusion: a Comparison of ‘Status Zer0’ Young People in Two Localities. Part 5. Reflections from the Field. 16. Some Lessons from Over a Decade of Contract Research.